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CVE-2008-1072
The TFTP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.6.0 through 0.99.7, when running on Ubuntu 7.10, allows remote attackers to cause a…
- 4.7MediumCVSS base score
- 0.72%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 46% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The TFTP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.6.0 through 0.99.7, when running on Ubuntu 7.10, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or memory consumption) via a malformed packet, possibly related to a Cairo library bug.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.7 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.72% · top 46% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.7.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
23
- GLSA-200803-32 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0890 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-3040 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 29188 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10188 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 29242 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 29511 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2008:005 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 20080229 rPSA-2008-0092-1 tshark wireshark (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 1019515 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0092 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-392.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 32091 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 29736 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2773 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2296 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0704 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 28025 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MDVSA-2008:057 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 29156 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-2941 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 29223 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-1083 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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